The US and China have agreed to start a dialogue on artificial intelligence (AI), exchange views on AI risks and benefits and establish a channel for AI incidents, with the next dialogue scheduled for November. CGTN spoke to American AI strategy expert Joe Weinman about why AI governance has become such an important issue, what kinds of AI incidents require direct communication and why keeping communication channels open is so important. He says AI offers enormous promise but also poses real risks, and that communication channels must remain open.